The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-03-31
South River Items

Reported for THE VIRGINIAN.
| : Mrs. George Hafnsberger, who for quite a
! mum Der of years has been sufferer from dyss
pepsia, is now lying quite i'll at the residence of
| her SON. in law, Mr.. Solomon CARRIER. near New
| Hope. Mrs. II. left home few weeks ago to
visit friends in the neighborhood where she now
/ is, In the hope that her health might be bene-
| fitted.
| At the time of leaving she was n a much bet
| ter state of health than she had been for quite
| time. but she had been only a short while
among her friends before an attack of eryspe-
las Frustrated her, and as before said, she lies
quite sufferer from the attack.
| Several of our pushing business men have in
! vested in fence making machinery and are
| driving ahead at such rate that you may ex-
pect at no distantday TO see al Augusta inclos-
| ed with palings and wire.
onward goes the orchard planting. and John
| Plum leads the van this season by planting the
whole OF his forty acres in peach and apple
| trees-a move In the right direction.
Daily are to be.seen wagons loaded with trees
| for different parts of Augusta and neighborng
counties, from Central Point and Waynesboro'
| nurseries.
In five yea rs the nursery trade, if it con inues
I to prosper, will be enormous.
| OF one thing we all should be thankful, and
J
trees furnished by our home growers has more
| than qnadrppled those of last year, while Their
| has been like falling eli il the number fure
nished by foreign dealers.
| The country will prosper only when home en-
| terprises are patronized and encouraged and
just here let nae point our farmers to the lauda-
! bic enterprise of Messrs. H. F. Lyle & Co. who
are manufacturing plow that in every essen
tial is as good as any taat can be furnished by
| any other firm in America-and why note Every
| plow or piece Of casting purchased of them
keeps just the price of il in circulation right
here whore it is most needed, while the price
| every piece sent from home reduces the need
ful by just that mUcn.
Then, farmers of Augusta, patroniZe Lyle !,
Co., Lickliter, Hardy, and all others of our own
! citizens who are laboriug to build up home en-
! terprises.
| On our trip over the S. Y. F. r. we got as far
as the Natural Bridge with our description
F! when rheumatism laid it's relentless hands
I upon our anatomy and shEt Us off.
Next week it is oar purpose to describe some
| objects of interest along that line that have
heretofore escaped the notice of seribbiers, but
that are nevertheless attractions indeed.
We also want to take the readers Of the VAL
! ley YIRGINIAN on stroll through one of the
! large Baltimore importing houaes in which we
spent the greater part of g day taking In the
wonders there as they were Shown us by the In
teIJigent gentleman in charge
| Hog cholera has made It's appearance In the
northern end Of err district again, and we hear
of losses from that fell destroyer every day.
Last week one of our nearest neighbors lost five
| flue ones. Can not some one of the readers of
| the VfRGINIAN give remedy
Should this disease continue from this time
proving as fatal as it has been through the sum
mer, as it did last year, there VIII be but few
swine left in this section.
| There were but few farmers who escaped loss
| from this disease last year, and most of them,
as far as we can learn, had their hogs running
at large In orchards. The orchard seems to be
kind OF preventive, but what is the cure?
Most of the ploWing for corn has been dong,
and a look over the amount done shows O
| greater average ready now than at this period
| for a great number of years.
There was ane crop last year on most farms,
and some old farmers declare they never saw
so fine yield. 'Tis to be hoped that this year s
planting may prove as good, or better.
Much truck farming will be done this season.
Year after year this kind Of cropping increases
There is no good reason why the whole of South
River district should not be vegetable garden,
for by the s. V. II. r. we have Baltimore. Ne W
| York. and Philadelphia within a few hours of
our doors, and by the CtA owe can reach Rich
mond in a very short time, while added to all
| this, the many hundreds OF miners now at work
in the district consume vast quantity of such
vegetables as are most easily grown here; In
fact, up to this time they have consumed all
the surplus that our people have had on hand.
and have had to draw on Norfolk and other
sources Of supply,
1t is thoughtby great many That there Will
| be a number of changes in the occupants OF
county and district offices. ROVER.